That's part of our problem... this shit just keeps coming and coming.
EXACTLY! I don't think I've been able to pick my lower jaw up off the floor in over 6 months! There just seems to be no end in sight for all this. The issues and problems with the watchtower run so deep and so far that it seems unending. I suppose that's why I just don't want to read anymore about them. There doesn't seem to be a light at the end of this tunnel. Just a deep dark pit of despair. It's a rabbit hole I don't want to climb down into for fear I may not ever return to the real world.

Back in my day we came across imformation drip by drip.  We had time to come to terms with the incredible things we discovered.   Theses days with the inter-net, you are overwhelmed with facts that make you stop and take a breath.......how..why..did i not know this?.  It can be overwhelming and can leave you disorientated.
I have often thought of this. How EASY leaving the jw's must have been to those that left before the internet came along. At least back then, most left because they could not or would not deal with the Watchtower anymore, based on a moral or ethical conflict of interests. It was a "personal" decision back then. (At least for most it was.) Nowadays, it seems as if leaving the jw's is no longer a "choice". Once you learn of their history, lies and deceit it becomes an "obligation" to leave it. Your almost forced out of the organization because no sane person would remain a part of that org. after learning about all this. It is very overwhelming. As you said Eddie, "enough is enough". I have gotten past that phase, and have now entered a phase where I just don't want the watchtower in my life at all anymore. After I cleaned out all of our jw literature in the house and threw it all away, I kept a small box of publications. Mostly it's comprised of my first bible, my baptism gift bible, my kids first bible stories book, their first bibles, one copy of each watchtower, publication and km....just in case I may need to reference something. Now, I feel like throwing that whole box away in the trash. WHY would I want reminders in my home of the days of my life that I spent in a cult? I almost feel "dirty" just to have those things in my home. I don't know what I'll do with that box o'books yet. I'll have to think more about it.


We do have a "bond". We are a brotherhood. A brotherhood of ex-jws united. Without that support system........geeze....I don't even want to think about how I would have gotten through this without all the wise wisdom I've been given on this forum.